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Labor reporter at Washington Post
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📬🚨 HUGE NEWS 📬🚨 Trump plans to fire the USPS governing board, merge the Postal Service into the Commerce Department. It would disrupt 55 years of non-political mail service, and threatens to upend trillions of dollars of ecommerce and the 250 year-old US mail system.

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NEW: A handful of states just introduced bills to ban "surveillance pricing and wages" That's when companies charge/pay differently based on personal data. Advocates fear the practice is widespread in the gig economy @willoremus.com & me washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

New: The FTC was set to tackle "surveillance pricing" and "surveillance wages" before Trump took office. Now consumer and worker advocates are taking the battle to the states instead—and four have already introduced bills to ban the practices: wapo.st/4iacqAZ (w/ @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social)

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Scoop: Trump fired a Biden-appointed member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, Susan Tsui Grundmann Like NLRB board members, members of FLRA which oversees public sector unions, cannot be fired by the president without cause

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

🚨NEWS: A temporary order has been issued blocking the Labor Dept. from sharing any data with DOGE, after a group of unions, including AFGE, sued DOGE and held a major protest outside DOL yesterday. Here's the union's email:

submitted 17 days ago • 73 comments

DOGE is fanning out across health agencies this week They’re seeking (and getting) access to sensitive payment systems in hunt for fraud and abuse They’re even getting boots on the ground at CDC in Atlanta with @jeffstein.bsky.social @lenasun.bsky.social @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 28 comments

🚨🚨 The Labor Dept is the next target on DOGE's list, per union email. If you know more please contact me securely on Signal @ 201.897.2109

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Fired NLRB board member is suing for her job back. Gwynne Wilcox alleges Trump is violated the law in removing her, but observers also say the case may tee up an opportunity for SCOTUS to expand presidential power. w/ @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Trump has appointed a new acting General Counsel of the NLRB, William Cowan, after firing Jennifer Abruzzo last week. Cowan served as regional director in LA office. Also a George W Bush appointee on the board in 2002 and previously a management-side attorney.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Hearing from reliable sources that Trump has fired Democratic NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox, an unprecedented move that could bring cases filed by SpaceX, Amazon challenging NLRB constitutionality to SCOTUS Board members are shielded from presidential removal so this appears illegal

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

Hearing from reliable sources that the Trump admin has fired NLRB Board member Gwynne Wilcox, an unprecedented move that could bring NLRB constitutionality cases filed by SpaceX, Amazon to the Supreme Court

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

NEWS: The Trump admin has terminated NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, widely considered one of the most union-friendly people in modern U.S. history to serve in the role. From Abruzzo:

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

Big NEWS: Whole Foods workers at a Philly location just voted 130 to 100 to unionize with the UFCW, per NLRB. They are the first at the Amazon-owned chain's 500+ locations to do so.

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Thousands of LA hotels workers walked off the job again this morning over pay and staffing levels. This time hotel workers are striking up and down the LAX corridor https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/10/hotel-strike-lax-la/

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BREAKING: Thousands of hotel workers in Southern Calif. walked off the job this morning for higher pay ahead of 4th of July holiday. This includes some of the biggest hotels in downtown LA. www.washingtonpost.com/busi...

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